It’s hardly inexplicable. He thought the game clock wouldn’t start until he touched the ball, which is the case in the final 2:00 of the game. Only the shot clock waits on touching the ball the whole game. He thought he was doing something good, in his teams’ interest. He wasn’t.
“Never ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
It’s hardly inexplicable. He thought the game clock wouldn’t start until he touched the ball, which is the case in the final 2:00 of the game. Only the shot clock waits on touching the ball the whole game. He thought he was doing something good, in his teams’ interest. He wasn’t.
It’s inexplicable that a basketball player would not know this rule.